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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Yeh it is.
    Proving that a scientific theory is wrong means we don’t understand enough about the thing. And we know we need to look at other theories about the thing.
    Proving things wrong as well as failed hypothesis is as important (even if it is disappointing) as proving things correct and successful hypothesis. It rules the theory out, and guides further scientific study.
    With published papers, other scientists can hopefully see what the publishing scientists missed.
    Scientists can also repeat experiments of successful papers to confirm the papers conclusion, and perhaps even make further observations that can support further studies.




  • That’s just people not used to dedicated cycle paths.
    You would likely have as many issues of a pedestrian trying to cross a road and not seeing a cyclist, as you would travelling on a dedicated cycle path with an ignorant pedestrian.

    It just needs everyone calling out people on cycle paths. They likely aren’t even aware they are on it.

    But that’s a lot to read into a single picture. Maybe they have checked both ways, and know nobody is coming (like they would with cars on a road)

    Edit:
    The 2 people further down don’t look like they are crossing!


  • I can understand.
    We have some new dedicated cycle lanes in our city (I mean, they are a few years old now. But fairly unique in our country).
    I feel bad for the cyclists. They have a dedicated path, which pedestrians are super ignorant of (they are better marked than this picture).
    My parents think they are a menace when they visit, because they are unaware of them and get menaced by cyclists.
    Except, that’s literally what roads are. They just grew up with roads and (even faster) cars.

    So, I am understanding of the transition.
    And everyone needs to call everyone out over it. It will make everyone safer







  • Yup.
    It’s a traumatic job/task that gets farmed to the cheapest supplier which is extremely unlikely to have suitable safe guards and care for their employees.

    If I were implementing this, I would use a safer/stricter model with a human backed appeal system.
    I would then use some metrics to generate an account reputation (verified ID, interaction with friends network, previous posts/moderation/appeals), and use that to either: auto-approve AI actions with no appeals (low rep); auto-approve AI actions with human appeal (moderate rep); AI actions must be approved by humans (high rep).

    This way, high reputation accounts can still discuss & raise awareness of potentially moderatable topics as quickly as they happen (think breaking news kinda thing). Moderate reputation accounts can argue their case (in case of false positives). Low reputation accounts don’t traumatize the moderators.





  • I swear there was a phase where shakey-cam had just become the in-thing.
    I remember watching a TV series or a movie or something where shooting had clearly wrapped before shakey-cam was popularised. And it looked like they had just added it in post. It was unnatural movement (so, not like someone was holding the camera), and there was too much of it. I had to skip a lot of the shakey-cam scenes



  • I like getting the train. First class is often similar or cheaper than the flight, it’s better for the environment, it’s easy to get up and walk around, and you get 4 hours of work done (instead of 2 hours of queuing, 1 hour of flying, 1 hour of queuing/waiting).
    I find companies are as happy to pay a train fair as they are a flight.

    And airports commonly need trains/busses/taxis to get to/from anyway.
    I’d rather arrive in the city center than the outskirts